High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
Fort Dorchester High, North Charleston, SC
Fort Dorchester High is a public high school in North Charleston, part of Dorchester 02 School District. It enrolled 2,344 students in 2024-25, with 17.5 students per full-time teacher.
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 2,344
- Teachers (FTE)
- 134.0
- Students per teacher
- 17.5
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 2.4 higher than the district figure of 15.1. The South Carolina average across schools is 14.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
This school17.5
District15.1
South Carolina14.4
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 8500 Patriot Boulevard, North Charleston, SC 29420
- Phone
- (843)760-4450
- District
- Dorchester 02 School District
- County
- Dorchester County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 450201000007
Related schools
Other high schools in Dorchester 02 School District
- Summerville High 3,361 students
- Ashley Ridge High 2,599 students
High schools elsewhere in North Charleston
- R. B. Stall High Charleston 01 School District
- Charleston School of the Arts Charleston 01 School District
- North Charleston High Charleston 01 School District
- Academic Magnet High Charleston 01 School District
- Palmetto Scholars Academy SC Public Charter School District
- Military Magnet Academy Charleston 01 School District
- Allegro Charter School of Music Charleston 01 School District
- Greg Mathis Charter High Charleston 01 School District
- Cooper River Center for Advanced Studies Charleston 01 School District
- Palmetto Excel SC Public Charter School District
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.